Back Catalogue [Original recording reissued]

Front 242 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000028L3
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,337 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #40 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Belgium

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Featuring older material, January 18, 2004

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Jay M "jay_mc" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back Catalogue (Audio CD)

As the album title indicates this collection features material right from when the band first started out. Throughout it you can trace their development in sound, though the material itself only covers a brief moment of time in Front 242's career, from 1981 to 1985.

It is very much a good buy. Fans of Front 242 should get this as it features material from various early albums and EP's by the group, which some may have missed.

Sounding much more basic than their later works, the songs on here are early dance songs and electro tracks. It shows the group honing their sound and working on sounds. For those that are not as into their later hard dance works such as 'Up Evil' or 'Off' then this maybe a better bet.

The best songs on here are 'U-Men', the instrumental 'Kampfbereit', the almost hip-hop-ish, breakbeat 'Take One', 'Lovely Day' and the swooping 'Don't Crash'.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll always return to my first love!, March 8, 2001

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ainchan "tiger_lux" (Nippon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back Catalogue (Audio CD)

This is a great complilation album. I personally prefer Front 242's early work to the later, dance-oriented stuff. The only tracks I don't care for are the 2 live ones at the end.

This album has completely withstood the test of time. I've had it for almost 10 years now, and I had the original vinyl records before that. Groups like Prodigy or Chemical Brothers I'll like for a few years, and then grow sick of them and toss them, always returning to this amazing album and my other favorite Front 242 record, Offical Version. The more I listen, the more I love it, and the more there is to hear.

Headhunter and Welcome to Paradise are cool dance tunes, but they are a little forced, and pop-ish in comparison.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars electronic music pioneers, February 27, 2000

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A Customer (UNITED ST.-FLORIDA-MIAMI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back Catalogue (Audio CD)

it's amazing AMAZON carry such an excellent record.Captures early landscapes of electronika that takes me back to the early computers ,KRAFTWERK and the very early 80's. It's not so much a dance compilation as it is the essence of the true/original alternative- INDUSTRIAL or whatever u wanna call this genre. It's incredible how this REAL musicians/composers made music like this with rudimentary-antique instrumentation.They were the pioners in sampling sounds besides a deep subliminal message and good- sticky lyrics. ATT. AnibalW-02-27-00